Anxiety, diazepam and retrieval from semantic memory.
Diazepam, an anxiolytic, was administered to 16 undergraduate volunteers in a double-blind design. Eight subjects were selected to be high in State and Trait anxiety and were slow in recall on a semantic memory task compared to non-anxious subjects. Instead of alleviating this detrimental effect of anxiety on memory, diazepam slowed recall in both the anxious and non-anxious.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D003975:Diazepam / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004311:Double-Blind Method; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory / Q000187:drug effects*
D003975:Diazepam